Color

For this first article of the year 2022, I continue my series on the symbolism of colours. After red, green, blue, yellow, white and black, here is pink.  Did you know that pink is not even a colour, scientifically speaking?  Yes, it is not associated with any wavelength, unlike red.

Colours speak to us! They have a direct impact on our mood, our thoughts and our behaviour. Each colour has its own wavelength, its own frequency. Colour is not just a visual stimulus, it causes chemical reactions that send messages to the brain.  The way in which colours are combined is

As with the colour white, one sometimes wonders if black is a colour… In any case, it was part of the ancient system. It is the absorption of all colours, or rather of all wavelengths, and as such, it sometimes delivers an ambiguous message. Let’s look at it in detail.

Is white a colour? For some, this is a matter of debate. For our ancestors, the question did not even arise! Of course white is a colour, it was even one of the three basic colours of the ancient system (with red and black). Kandinsky said of it: “it acts

With yellow, it’s make or break! On the whole, it is not particularly liked among colors, people are wary of it, in short, it does not have a good reputation. But why is that?  Let’s find out a little more about what’s behind the colour yellow… Yellow in history In

Blue is the star of colours. It is the favourite colour of Westerners and even of the French (and has been since such surveys were first conducted in 1890). Isn’t blue the colour of Europe and the UN? Blue is wise, full of conformity. Take blue jeans, for example: originally

The last time I spoke to you about the power of colours, I introduced you to the colour red. Today, let’s look at the symbolism of the colour green. Green in history Green was not a difficult colour to reproduce, as it could be obtained from many plants. The problem